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ST. LOUIS — Researchers should include laboratory mice that are old and obese in their studies of immunotherapy treatments for...

Credit: Ross Neitz (Edmonton, AB) Most people have heard the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”...

While the latter half of the 20th century showed a widening gap between the more and less educated with respect...

La Jolla, Calif., May 25, 2016 — Research led by scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP)...

ITHACA, N.Y. – 3-D printing has become a powerful tool for engineers and designers, allowing them to do "rapid prototyping"...

Spinal cord injuries are mostly caused by trauma, often incurred in road traffic or sporting incidents, often with devastating and...

BINGHAMTON, NY – The power grid is aging, overburdened and seeing more faults than ever, according to many. Any of...

DURHAM, N.C. — A long line of research links poverty and depression. Now, a study by Duke University scientists shows...

(Brussels, 31 May, 2016) A report investigating the current state of digestive health in children has revealed alarming trends in...

Just as members of an orchestra need a conductor to stay on tempo, neurons in the brain need well-timed waves...

Oncologists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have successfully treated a patient with metastatic melanoma by combining two different...

One of Zika's mysteries is how the virus passes from an infected mother, through the placenta, to a developing fetus....

Credit: Lena Palaniyappan A team of scientists from across the globe have shown that the brains of patients with schizophrenia...

Dining in dimly lit restaurants has been linked to eating slowly and ultimately eating less than in brighter restaurants, but...

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB RAS), the Institute...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand,...

Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, and the “Saving Brains” partners today announced investments in nine creative...

Researchers at Emory University, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, along with national and international collaborators,...

A group of researchers at Osaka University found that if DNA damage response (DDR) does not work when DNA is...

(Philadelphia, PA) – Using gene editing technology, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have, for...